The Shikra was developed by Xipiter as a single tool to replace a handful of others. It was also developed by Xipiter to be used in Xipiter's "Software Exploitation Via Hardware Exploitation" course which teaches how to reverse engineer and attack embedded systems.

Since this tool is an in-house tool. Xipiter will be releasing software and other tools (such as hardware debugger configurations) specifically for the Shikra so that users can quickly "get to work"...

Many people skip the INT3 "About" page and formulate opinions without understanding what is going on here. Please read that to understand why just because a project is "Open Source hardware" doesn't mean...

The blog system on this e-commerce platform is awful. This blogpost has been prettified and moved to Xipiter's main blog here:
http://www.xipiter.com/musings/using-the-shikra-to-attack-embedded-systems-getting-started